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In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Django + GIS = GeoDjango

posted by tprinty on Monday April 21, @05:10PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the one-frame-work-to-rule-them-all dept.

If you are into python, GIS and django then you must check out GeoDjango. GeoDjango is described as "a world-class geographic web framework. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to build GIS web applications and harness the power of spatially enabled data." Here is some recent news about the framework:

Stuff like this makes me really want to get going in the python world.

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Django 1.0 with GeoDjango Released [+]
We mentioned GeoDjango last April. Now Django 1.0 has just been released and it includes the GeoDjango component. Here's the Django Wikipedia page. Geoblogger Sean Gillies has a recent post named Django on Jython. The Slashdot Django 1.0 summary: "Finally, the stable version 1.0 of Django (one of the most popular free Python based frameworks) has been released. Explained in the project blog, this achievement was in part due to the great users and developers community of the Django project, and recall the big effort with numbers like 4000 commits and 2000 bugs fixed since last stable version. Django is 'The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.' You can dive in by reading the overview." Slashdot discussed this summer the book Pratical Django Projects.
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